. Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the year 1870. except Hauser (who. TAKING A SUOT AT JAKE SMITHS HAT. is an expert pistol shot) is sufficiently skilled in the use ofthe revolver to hit an Indian at even a close range, and heoffered to put the matter to a test by setting up his hat at adistance of twenty yards for the boys to shoot at with theirrevolvers, without a rest, at twenty-five cents a shot. While 8 Washburn Yellowstone Expedition of 1870. several members of our party were blazing away with indif-ferent success, with the result that Jake was a
. Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the year 1870. except Hauser (who. TAKING A SUOT AT JAKE SMITHS HAT. is an expert pistol shot) is sufficiently skilled in the use ofthe revolver to hit an Indian at even a close range, and heoffered to put the matter to a test by setting up his hat at adistance of twenty yards for the boys to shoot at with theirrevolvers, without a rest, at twenty-five cents a shot. While 8 Washburn Yellowstone Expedition of 1870. several members of our party were blazing away with indif-ferent success, with the result that Jake was adding to hisexchequer without damage to his hat, I could not resist theinclination to quietly drop out of sight behind a clump ofbushes, where from my place of concealment I sent frommy breech-loading Ballard repeating rifle four bullets inrapid succession, through the hat, badly riddling it. Jakeinquired, Whose revolver is it that makes that loud re-port? He did not discover the true state of the case, butremoved the target with the ready acknowledgment thatthere were members of our party whose aim with a
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